Sammendrag
This thesis gives an account of Georges Didi-Huberman’s reading of Aby Warburg’s image theories and his Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, an atlas of images of artworks and cultural objects spanning from antiquity to the second part of the 1920s. The last panel of this atlas, the number 79, thematizes –amongst other things– the sacrament of the Eucharist and the doctrine of transubstantiation, the chair of St. Peter, and the ecclesiastical-political procession following the Lateran treaty of 1929 between Italy and the Holy See. Panel 79 and its images have been then analyzed and reinterpreted in the view of Didi-Huberman’s theories, casting a new light on the Warburgian concept of surviving images.